These Are the 9 Mixing Spatulas Our Testers Loved

Best Overall

GIR Ultimate Spatula

$13 at Amazon View on Walmart View on Gir.co

The GIR Ultimate Spatula is a bit more expensive than the bargain variety, but it checks all the right boxes. The stiffness of the spatula works great when mixing batters, as it breaks up eggs perfectly and creams softened butter easily. Our tester said the slightly rounded handle, which is shaped to fit the hand, felt great during use, and she was able to scrape the bowl so clean it looked like it hadn't even been used.

This spatula heat resistant to 550 degrees Fahrenheit, since the proprietary fiberglass core offers better heat resistance than spatulas with metal cores. In testing, it worked well during high-heat sautéing and was perfect for use in a nonstick pan as it moves well over the surface without bending or scraping. Although the handle didn't get hot at all, our tester thought the 11-inch version may be a bit short for use if you're sautéing with oil, since the spatter comes close enough to strike the back of your hand. Though the larger size is a bit too wide for scooping peanut butter from the jar, you can use the spatula to blend homemade dressing in a small Mason jar (though it may be slightly awkward).

The spatula cleans beautifully and easily, and the density of the premium silicone helps remove food completely and quickly without any of the oily residue that clings to some spatulas. It's made in a single piece with no seams, holes, or cracks where food could collect, so it's easy to keep clean and is dishwasher safe.

These spatulas are available in multiple colors to add style to your kitchen, as well as several sizes, from a mini version to a giant spatula for your largest soup pot. Once you try one, you'll buy more, and they'll last for years. "I actually loved this product," our tester said. "It's got a great feel, it moves well, and it performs a variety of tasks in an excellent manner. It's well-crafted and it looks great."

Material: Silicone with fiberglass core | Max Heat: 550 degrees Fahrenheit | Sizes Available: 8.3 inches, 11 inches, 15.8 inches | Dishwasher Safe: Yes

Best Double-Sided

Orblue Flexible Silicone Spatula

$15 at Amazon Orig. $9 $8 at Walmart

Great for small spaces, this compact spatula has two usable ends. One end is a wide offset angled blade that's designed for mixing batter and scraping bowls, and the other end is a spoon for mixing batter and stirring sauces.

Our tester found this spatula to be surprisingly comfortable to use, particularly considering that it's two-sided. The silicone has a surface that feels good to grip, and although the blade is flexible, it's strong enough to cream butter and mix batter thoroughly and quickly. The spatula is made in one piece with no seams, and it's dishwasher safe, cleans exceptionally easily, and repels oily residues.

As a cooking tool, our tester reported that this spatula excels at stirring soups or creamy sauces. In a pinch, it can be used to sauté in a small or medium pan as well. In testing, the handle didn't get hot while in use for a short period of time, but there are no claims made by the manufacturer as to its high-heat performance. This spatula is perfect for scooping peanut butter or other ingredients like mayonnaise from a jar—the smaller end gets to all the corners and the rounded spoon edge makes it easy to get the tiniest bits. It can also be used to mix liquids like a homemade salad dressing in a small Mason jar. When you're not using it for stirring, mixing, and scraping, it comes in handy for frosting cakes and cupcakes.

"This is a tremendously appealing product," said our tester. "Its ability to multitask along with its really comfortable feel and handling made me a big fan. Add in its geeky modern good looks, and I have to say it's now one of my favorite mixing spatulas ever!"

Material: Silicone | Max Heat: Not specified | Sizes Available: 12 inches | Dishwasher Safe: Yes

Best Colors

RSVP International Ela Style Spatula

$10 at Amazon $15 at Walmart $15 at Wayfair

It doesn't get much simpler than this spatula. Made of soft silicone, it won't damage nonstick cookware or bakeware, and it can handle heat up to 425 degrees Fahrenheit. The edges are flexible enough to scrape corners of cookware or the sides of a mixing bowl, yet sturdy enough to handle dense doughs. Plus, it comes in six vibrant colors so you can fill your utensil crock with style.

The rounded handle makes it comfortable to use and it works well for mixing batters. However, the blade is a bit too flexible to make it easy to cream butter, our tester reported. It does scrape the bowl completely, with no batter remaining on the sides of the bowl.

According to our tester, the handle on this tool is slightly shorter than it should be for comfortably sautéing in a medium or large pan. However, it works well in a small pan, and it's sturdy and stands up to high heat. The size of the blade and its angled rectangular shape—as well as the slight flexibility of the blade—make it a good choice for scooping or mixing liquid ingredients in jars. "It's a good all-purpose spatula to have around for general tasks or for a beginning cook—or even for kids in the kitchen who cook or make crafts," our tester said.

This spatula consists of a single piece of silicone with no creases or joints that could collect food, so cleaning is easy by hand or in the dishwasher. The surface is fairly resistant to oily residues, though not quite as much as other spatulas on this list.

Material: Silicone | Max Heat: 425 degrees Fahrenheit | Sizes Available: 8 inches, 11 inches | Dishwasher Safe: Yes

Best Jumbo

Tovolo Flex-Core All Silicone Jumbo Spatula

$11 at Amazon $11 at Walmart $12 at Kohls.com

The large size of this Tovolo Flex-Core Jumbo Spatula helps it do more work in less time. The handle is designed to be ergonomic despite the tool's size, so your hand won't tire while stirring and stirring, and it won't damage your nonstick cookware or bakeware. The smooth surface and large size also make it a great option for spreading frosting onto cakes. 

Our tester found that this spatula works extremely well for mixing batter. "The handle is comfortable and it's great to have the extra length," she explained. Both flexible and sturdy, it creams butter easily and scrapes the bowl perfectly. Due to the length of the handle, the high heat resistance, and the sturdiness and shape of the blade, our tester said this is the best tool on the list to use for sautéing—even though it's not designed specifically for cooking on the stove. While the spatula is too big to scoop ingredients from standard-size jars, it works well on jumbo jars.

"This is an amazing kitchen tool to have for all kinds of tasks," said our tester. "It's so good I'm making a list of people to gift it to!"

Material: Silicone with nylon core | Max Heat: 600 degrees Fahrenheit | Sizes Available: 12.5 inches | Dishwasher Safe: Yes

Best Commercial Grade

Rubbermaid High Heat Silicone Spatula

$15 at Amazon Orig. $40 $33 at Walmart $27 at Wayfair

While not the most decorative spatula you'll find, this commercial-grade Rubbermaid utensil can stand up to heavy-duty use. Even better, this same spatula is available with either a flatter head for scraping or with a more spoon-shaped style for scooping. It's also available in multiple lengths, from 9.5 inches to 16.5 inches.

"These spatulas are worth their weight in gold in professional kitchens and are some of the most used pieces of cooking equipment on nearly every station in a restaurant," says The Spruce Eats Baking Expert Jenny Kellerhals. "They can withstand some of the most intense high-volume cooking and are equally suited for delicate pastry work. Serious cooks have one in every size Rubbermaid makes, and they guard the spatulas with their lives."

The handle is rigid enough to keep from flexing, even when you're mixing a dense dough. Our tester found it fairly comfortable to use, but the handle is flat, not rounded, with raised edges all along the outside of the handle. This makes holding it feel slightly unwieldy. It's definitely rigid enough to cream sugar and mix a batter thoroughly. In testing, it was great at scraping the bowl completely clean.

The silicone head is stain resistant and can handle heat up to 500 degrees Fahrenheit. It also protects nonstick cookware from scratches, but since the blade is shaped like a rectangle with one edge slightly rounded, using this tool to sauté over high heat feels a bit clumsy. That said, it comes in handy for stirring a pot of soup or a batch of peanut brittle on the stove. It can also be used to scoop ingredients from jars and blend liquids in small Mason jars in a pinch.

There's a hanging hole on the end of the handle, and it's dishwasher safe—even in a commercial dishwasher. One of the interesting design features is a wedge-shaped notch on the upper side of the blade, which is called a “Clean Rest feature,” intended to provide a way to keep the blade off the countertop. While our tester found some of the design details a little unnecessary and even somewhat annoying for everyday use, she appreciated the quality of the materials. "This is a tool made to last through a lot of hard work and still keep going strong, no matter what you throw at it," she said.

Material: Silicone | Max Heat: 500 degrees Fahrenheit | Sizes Available: 9.5 inches, 13.5 inches, 16.5 inches | Dishwasher Safe: Yes

Best Spoonula

StarPack Home Premium Silicone Spoonula

$11 at Amazon

Spoonulas are the perfect blend of spatula and spoon—hence their name. You can use a spoonula for mixing and blending just like a standard flat spatula, while the shallow bowl makes it much easier to scoop out batters and transfer food from bowl to pot more efficiently.

Our tester said this one has a nice feel, is easy to use, and is slightly lighter than most mixing spatulas. In testing, it creamed butter, blended batter, and scraped a bowl completely clean. "It cleans quickly, repels oil residues, and can take heavy use," said our tester. "I liked it as a sturdy multipurpose tool."

The angle of the blade and the slight bowl shape on this spatula work together exceptionally well when used as a sauté tool. The handle didn't get hot and it worked well when stirring soups or sauces. While this spatula could work as a jar scooper in a pinch, our tester noted that the blade is slightly too large for complete efficiency.

Material: Silicone | Max Heat: 480 degrees Fahrenheit | Sizes Available: 14 inches | Dishwasher Safe: Yes

Best Set

OXO Good Grips Spatula Set

$21 at Amazon View on Webstaurantstore.com $21 at Sur La Table

Many home cooks really do need more than one spatula, so a set makes a lot of sense. This OXO Good Grips spatula set includes a red "everyday spatula" that's great for most uses, a white spoon spatula (or "spoonula") that's ideal for scooping foods out of a bowl or pot, and a small light blue spatula that's perfect for mixing small batches or for digging into jars.

For even more versatility, the everyday spatula has a rounded edge that's great for bowls and a pointed edge that helps spread batter into the edges of pans. All of these spatulas are heat resistant, so you can use them for all your cooking needs. Since the silicone covers both the spatula and the handle, the entire thing is nonslip, regardless of where you hold it. These spatulas won't warp or melt, and they're dishwasher safe for easy cleaning.

The previous version of this spatula set was very good, but OXO has recently updated it to create an even more impressive set. The newest version, featured here, is completely covered in silicone, making the spatulas more resistant to heat, easier to clean, and sturdier overall. The handles are a great length, with reinforcement the entire length of the handle and a hole at the base for hanging. Our tester was especially pleased with the length of the handles and how well they resisted heat when left sitting on the side of a skillet. She also loved how easy the spatulas were to hold, even when covered with bacon grease.

During testing, each of the spatulas transitioned nicely from cooking to baking. Our tester found that the small light blue spatula was the perfect size for scraping down the bowl of a stand mixer while making frosting, and the spoon spatula was great at scooping heaping piles of frosting onto a cake. Over the course of a single cake-making project, our tester found it helpful to have all three spatulas on hand to tackle different parts of the process, making the entire set incredibly valuable.

"I think these are my new favorite cooking spatulas based on how sturdy they are, how nice they look, and how well they perform," our tester said. "I like the length of all of the handles, which extend all the way out of a pan, pot, or bowl. The heads are the perfect combination of stable core and flexible edges for just about every project."

Material: Silicone | Max Heat: 450 degrees Fahrenheit | Sizes Available: 10 inches, 12 inches, 12.5 inches | Dishwasher Safe: Yes

Best Miniature

Tovolo Flex-Core Mini Spatula & Spoonula Set

Orig. $13 $12 at Amazon $11 at Target

While we love our large spoonula and industrial spatula, there are just some places those larger tools can't go—like the bottom of a tiny jar of honey, for example, or into the corners of a blender to scoop out every last bit of smoothie. For this reason, we like to have a set of miniature silicone spatulas on hand for the really tough tiny jobs in the kitchen, and this set of two from Tovolo is a great option.

These spatulas use the same Flex-Core structure that Tovolo created to stabilize the larger spatulas the brand produces. These little spatulas might even become your favorite go-to kitchen utensil for scrambling a few eggs, scraping the last bit of cupcake batter into a pan, smoothing out brownie batter, or even tasting sauces while they simmer.

We used these little spatulas to whip up a batch of blueberry muffins, using one for the crumble topping mix and the other for the muffin batter. Even with the smaller stature of these spatulas, mixing a lightweight one-bowl batter was almost effortless. The spatula heads were resilient enough to mash butter into flour and sugar, and even though it took a little more work than a larger spatula may have, we were able to completely scrape the bowl of all the muffin batter. They were also great on the stovetop for scrambling eggs—and super useful when scooping peanut butter and jelly to make a post-testing sandwich.

"The traditional mini spatula appears to be flat, but slightly offset, and the spoonula has a slightly curved top edge, both features that make the spatulas more ergonomic and allow better movement around the bowl," our tester said. "They both work great and feel very solid."

When you're finished using them, the spatula heads can be tossed into the dishwasher with the rest of your utensils for a thorough cleaning. However, the wooden handles aren't dishwasher-safe, and they're not quite as heat resistant, so be careful when leaning these spatulas against the side of a pot or using over an open flame.

Material: Silicone, wood | Max Heat: 450 degrees Fahrenheit | Sizes Available: 9 inches, 12.5 inches | Dishwasher Safe: Removable heads; yes; wooden handles: no

Best Miniature Set

Cuisinart Mini Spatulas

Orig. $9 $8 at Amazon Orig. $18 $16 at Walmart $11 at Kohls.com

Just like the larger spatula sets, this miniature version was created with smaller baking and cooking projects in mind. If you're into frosting cupcakes and cookies and working on a smaller scale, or if you just have smaller hands, a smaller set of tools is going to make the work so much easier. This set from Cuisinart includes three mini spatulas completely covered in silicone to make them incredibly heat resistant, nonslip, and dishwasher safe. It comes with a pink traditional mini spatula with one curved edge and one squared edge, a blue spoon-shaped spatula, and a long green jar spatula.

During testing, we tried out all three spatulas on various cooking and baking projects, including mixing brownie batter, sautéing vegetables, scrambling eggs, and making a peanut butter sandwich. The traditional mini spatula was able to handle every task we set it to, although it performed best for the smaller brownie project and scrambling eggs. "Anyone who's getting into baking will benefit from these smaller spatulas when frosting, filling piping bags, and working with small cake pans," said our tester.

These spatulas are a little too small for larger cooking projects and aren't quite long enough to extend comfortably out of a medium or large pot. The spoon spatula scooped batter and cleared the bowl without a problem, although some of the thick batter stayed put in the well of the spoon, which we were able to clear out by hand.

The star of this set is actually the long green jar spatula, which is ideal both for reaching into deeper jars, but also for schmearing peanut butter across a slice of bread. Our tester also found it helpful when scraping all of the butter off of a butter wrapper, to get every little bit of product for our brownies. "The jar spatula is nearly indispensable and would be valuable even sold on its own," our tester said. "These are also the perfect size for children or people with small hands."

Material: Silicone | Max Heat: 425 degrees Fahrenheit | Sizes Available: 10.75 inches | Dishwasher Safe: Yes